While it's not nearly as engaging as the original Samuil Petrovitch trilogy, a fair book by Simon Morden beast a bad day of fishing all hollow. Petrovitch's adopted daughter Lucy is off doing research in Alaska when the town she's near, along with her, goes dark. Our boy annoys the US into letting him go after her, since they don't seem to be doing much, and they saddle him with a company man who is slow to realize they've both been set up. Not like that's going to stop Samuil. The main action is their flight from the Metrozone to Alaska by plane, train, and snowmobile, and the big reveal at the end is more X-Files than anything else. I didn't hate it, but Morden's done better.